Ethiopia: Can tablets replace teachers?

Yeah, I’d seen this before and I don’t believe a word of it. If they’d lie about something as basic as the printed word, when do they decide to stop lying? Ethiopia is hardly the Andaman Islands, the deepest Amazon, or “Shangri-La,” New Guinea.

They “hacked” Android? In 5 months? Puh-leeze.

Handwriting recognition? Hey, why doesn’t my tablet have that? Handwriting is easier for children than using a touch pad? Buwahahaha. Stop it… my sides are hurting.

OK, ok, I get it. This is this another one of those thinking without those pesky facts posts.

Uh, let’s keep in mind that “hacked”, in this context, probably means writing a little PHP. Not the more widely-assumed definition of zomifying the OLPC.

A couple of kids doing some hacking isn’t quite the same thing as crafting a virus that sets up a huge botnet.